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FOREIGN
THE NEW PRESIDENT.

How the Different Factions in France Re
gard Sadi-Carnot.
Record Union's Special Cabeqrdna-Copvyio6ted
By the Nel0 York Tribunel
PARIS, December 4th.-Paris awoke this
morning with a feeling of relief. The
crisis is over, and peaceably. The feeling
on the surface is certainly one of satisfac-
ton with Sadi-Carnot's election. Even the
Ferryites, the most bitterly disappointed of
all, make the best of it. After having
sacrificed, says their organ, the RepuJlique
FfdrcdiS, their own candidates, one alter
another the Extreme Left found no other
way OF preventing the election of Ferry
than TO take one of our agenfs-an old Re
publican, no doubt, and a colleague Of
Gambetta at Tours-but Moderate of the
Moderates."
The Opportunists, accordingly, offer the
new President their support. Clemenceau
naturally is triumphant. Twice the
triumph is his; even in his hour of triumph,
the implacable Radical cannot help men
acing his foes with what might have hap
pened. The country was up, and prepared
at all hazards TO rid itself OF Ferry. had he
been chosen. This is good enough sample
OF the French Radicals notions of politics !;
Civil war, sooner than President we
dislike"
REPUBLICANS NOT HARMONIOUS.
Probably DeCassagnac, VINO is seldom
right, is right in saying that the Republi-
cans are more decided than ever. ! see no
sign in any Republican paper of any shade
of yielding anything for the sake of ha1-
mony. Each expects the other 70 yield.
Theirs said the republic would prevail, be-
cause 1t was the form of government which
divided the people the least Carnot is
President of the Republic for the same rea-
son, but divisions between the Republican
sections are as sharp as ever.
THE REvoLUTIoNIsTs CLAIM THE VICTORY
AS theirs, and with only too much reason.
The Central Revolutionary Committee pub
fishes manifesto thanking the rioters,
whose decisive demonstrations in the
streets, they say, overthrew Ferry. This is
signed by the Communists Eades and
Valiant.
Henry R0chefort says: ITO the people
as whole, but especially to our friends the
Revolntionists, that credit belongs of hay
ing saved the Republic and prevented mas
sacres." What he says of Ferry is too
filthy to quote, but he tells Carnot that he
owes his election to the populace of Paris
De Cassagnac describes the new Presl-
dent as the most ridiculous politician
living.
An OhLEANlST BLOW.
The Orleanists do not take defeat kindly.
They hoped, perhaps, that Ferry, once
elected, might prove pliable to Royalist in
huence. They hope nothing from Carnot
His past" says Herne, a leading Orlean-
ist writer, is not brilliant enough to have
dazzled his opinions, and not definite
enough to rouse passions. He might pass
for neutral, but for the patronage be-
slowed on him. De Freycinet was the pro-
tectol of the Radicals. Carnot is their pro-
tege."
THE MIDDLE CLASS OPINION
Is perhaps better expressed by Francis
Maynard than anybody else "Carnot's
election" says Maynard in the Figaro, " is
the triumph of an honest man. 1t may be
said that everybody has gained something
The Royalists have seen the Republic dis
credited by scandal and the Constitution
shaken. The Opportunists, who failed to
elect Ferry, compelled the Radicals to
abandon their candidates and choose q
President who is really of the Left Center.
The Radicals have beaten the Ferry mob,
and have seen the Legislature Quail before
themselves. The Republicans, as body,
are able to say 1t was the Republicans who
elected the President without the help of a
single Royalist vote, and they point to the
easy transmission of power from President
to President as proof of the substantial Vi
tality of republican Institutions
A COMPROMISE MINISTRY PROBABLE.
Goblet and de Freycinet both are men,
toned as probable Prime Ministers Flou-
rons, 1t is supposed. may stay at the head
of Foreign Affairs, and Rouvier may re-
turn to the Finances. Nobody seems to
have clear idea himself, but as Carnot is
a compromise President, accepted by all
the Republican groups, an attempt at a
COmpromise Ministry is likelv